Fruit-press



M. A. ROLLMAN'AND C. J. SCHIEMER.

FRUIT PRESS.

APPLICATION FILED JAN-30.19I5.

1 3 1 7, 6 6 6 Patented Sept. 30, 1919.

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i llllll UM A THE COLUMBIA PCANOGRAPH co., WASHINGTON. uv c.

M-A. HOLLMAN AND C. J. SCHIEMER.

- FRUI T PRESS.

APPLICATION FILED JAN.3)0. 1915.

l 3 1 7, 6 6 Patented Sept. 30, 1919.

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MICHAEL A. ROLLMAN AND CHARLES J. SCHIEMER, OF MOUNT JOY, PENNSYLVANIA.

FRUIT-PRESS.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 30, 1919.

Application filedfl'anuary 30, 1915. Serial No. 5,279.

To all? whom it, may concern Be it known that we, MICHAEL A. ROLL- MAN and CHARLES J. SOHIEMER, citizens of the United States of America, and residents of Mount Joy, county of Lancaster, State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in'Fruit-Presses, of which the following is a full and clear specification, reference being had to the acdrain groove 0.

companying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a vertical sectional vlew of my apparatus adjusted for use as a press for pressing the juice from fruits, etc.;

Fig. 2 a transverse section showing the formation of the collecting and draining groove in the bottom of the hopper.

Fig. 8 a transverse sectional view on the line 33 of Fig. l;

Fig. t a detail side elevation of the spacing sleeve removably attached to the plunger;

Fig. 5 a plan view of the fruit holder;

Fig. 6 a detail perspective view of the removable tWo-arm lever-nut; and

Fig. 7 a vertical sectional view showing the apparatus adapted for use as avsausage filler.

The object of this invention is to so con struct the apparatus that it may be inexpensively manufactured, will be durable in use and convenient and easy to operate, as more fully hereinafter set forth; A further object is to so construct the apparatus that it may be readily converted into a sausage stufiing apparatus, as more fully hereinafter set forth.

In the drawings, a designates a cylindrical hopper fastened to a oircularcast iron base or bottom]; having formed in it depression 0 adapted to receive the juices from the fruit and conduct them to a spout cl formed integrally with said bottom plate. The apparatus is adapted to be removably fastened to a support by means of a clamping device consisting of depending arms 6, each carrying the usual set screw f, upon the upper end of which is swiveled a clamp plate 9, each clamp plate being guided in its up and down movements by having its front edge cast with hooks h which engage vertical flanges i on the adjacent depending arm. The plates 9 form the lower members of the clamp, and the upper members are formed by lugs 7' which are formed integrally with the bottom plate 2) by the depressing of the From the part which emppoint outside of the hopper.

'ties into the spout d, this drain groove 0 branches rearwardly, one branch extending to either side of the center of the bottom plate. It is the deeper rearmost ends of these two branches of the drain groove that form the clamp lugs Afiixed centrally to the bottom plate I) is a screw rod 70 which extends upwardly'to a Within the hopper is removably mounted a straining hopper Z, Whose bottom is centrally perforated for the passage of the rod k and whose bottom and side walls are perforated for the escape of the juices out into the main hopper. Removably connected to the rod 7? is a lever-nut m which, when screwed down on the bolt, is forced against the upper end of a sleeve a surrounding the screw and ing table or shelf. The advantage in thus inclining the screw and other parts is that the parts will thus be in position for the greatest degree :of convenience on the part of the operator, since the operator will naturally stand in front of the apparatus and the screw will thus incline toward him, thus enabling the operator to apply the greatest degree of power'while standing in an easy position. I

The sleeve n and the pressure disk 0 are readily slid off the end of the screw after the lever-nut is removed therefrom, and, furthermore, the pressure disk may be readily detached from the sleeve, since it is removably screwed on to the lower end thereof. This removability of the pressure disk is advantageous in that it enables the substitution of a larger disk (0) when it is desired to use the apparatus for pressing a substance without the use of the straining hopper Z, as shown in Fig. 7. This use of 1 the device is desirable where the apparatus is'adapted for sausage stuffing, and, when used for this purpose, it is desirable also to removably attach to spout d a supplemental sausage filling spout d. The arrangement of the draining groove 0 and the inclining of the bottom of the hopper downwardly and ere-m s am-1 ad ptsthiswpp'a ratus for being converted into a sausage stuffing 'ma'chine';' and this arrangement'of the drain groove and hopper bottom is ad vantageous also when the apparatus is used for its main purpose, namely, for fruit deviceare, constructed exactly alike, so that they are interchangeable; this greatly facilitates manufacture and assembling, as is obvious; After the removal of thepin m the nut may be opened out, as shown in Fig. 6, whereupon it may be applied to the screw at any ,point' in the length thereof; this enables-the nut to be placed on the screw closeto the upper end of the sleeve m. and.

thus avoids the necessity of screwing the nut down from the upperendof the screw, as would be'nccessary were'the nut. alsolid or. non-separable one.

Another advantage the force applied to turn the nut will be less'liable to twist the machine offthe table than in, those machines where the screw l stands straight up and the power,"therefore,

' tends; to: swin oritwist ,the machine in a V horizontal direction away from the table, in which latter case any considerable'applica tion ofv power-to the lever nut will tend I strongly to twist the machine off the edge of the table."- j

Copies of this patent maybe-obtained for jive cents each, by addressing "the Commissioner of r at'enlts 7 in inclining the screwf rod forwardly Wlilll respect to the clamp- ,1ng surface of the clamping members is that ing it, a removable straining hopper, a central upstanding screw rod, a lever-nut on the -rod,'a sleeve loosely slida-ble on the rod,

and a plurality of different sized pressure Having" thus" uescribe'rtur' invention,

what Weclaim is: 1

1. In a'p'ress ofthe class set forth, a hop .per and means for'supporting and anchorplates each of which is capable of being removably attached to thelowerj endof said removed from the apparatus and a pressure sleeve, wherebythe straining hopper may-be plate substituted w-hichwill be adapted for use with theouter ormainhopper. u I

2. In apress of the class, set forth; a

main hopper provided with a botto nplate;

an upstanding screw anchored to the bottol l plate; a straining hopper having a-perforated bottom plate,- this straining hopper and its-bottom plate being bodily removable together from the main hopper; Vanda pressure means monntedon the screw. l

3. In combination with a main hopper havinga bottonrplate, this bottom plate being provided with depressed diverging portions forming a drain groove, these de-" pressions forming a pairof separatedlugs' 'y' whose under surfacesare' horizontal while the body ofthe plate inclines downwardly and forwardly; means carried by the bottom' 7 plate and adapted to cooperatewith said lugs to form a table clamp; and expressing means mounted on the bottom plate above the drain grooves therein.

In testimony'whereof we hereunto affix 7- our signatures in the presence of two wit-U. 7'

nesses.

a M-IQHAEL A, RoLLMAN.

' CHASuJ;

Witnesses: i 1

I WANNA Hersey, f Cries; GLDE LONG.

'SCI-IIEMER.

Wgshington, .D. 01f 

